Titre du document / Document title
Design of bus routes: Methodology and the Santo Domingo case


Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) Transportation Research Institute, Faculty of Civil Engineering Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, ISRAEL
(2) Autoridad Metropolitana de Transporte (AMET), Expreso V Centenario Esq. San Martin, Santo Domingo, DOMINICAINE, REPUBLIQUE

Résumé / Abstract
Growing traffic congestion, the importance of preserving the environment, and the problems of road safety are the main reasons to consider new initiatives worldwide in designing new urban transit routes. A need exists to develop a practical methodology for the construction of a new or improved network of bus routes along with intermodality considerations. An approach for the design of urban bus routes is presented with an example of designing new bus routes for the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Santo Domingo has major congestion, environmental, and safety problems. The presented approach involves a framework for the construction of operational objective functions for the bus-network-design problem. This framework takes into account passenger, operator, and community interests. The methodology combines the philosophy of mathematical programming approaches with decision-making techniques, so as to allow the user to select from a number of alternatives. The overall formulation is nonlinear and mixed-integer programming. The bus-network-design formulation used in the case study of Santo Domingo, a city with 3 million inhabitants, involved a large network of feasible bus routes subjected to the proposed method and resulted in 84 new bus routes. With other accompanied measures, the new bus routes will change the bus system image in Santo Domingo.

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Description
Located in the heart of the Malecon District in Santo Domingo, this building of luxury apartments with commercial office space in the first and second floors is the first of its kind in the Domincan Republic, built with almost all tempered Arctic Blue intertior and exterior glass.

Featuring a glass bottom pool, jacuzzi, sauna and complete gym facilities, this building is a work of art and without a questions a sight to see when visiting the Domincan Republic.



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Lunch Date: September 2006

Location
Dominican Republic

Address
Malecon, Santo Domingo

Metres
52,000

Architect

Sanchez & Curiel Architects

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